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I need a new card for ~300. A friend was going to sell me his 680 for this price but ended up backing out due to other reasons.

What would you all suggest? I am wanting to get away from ATI for a change.

I am leaning towards a 770, but they are $50 more than I really want to spend. Curious if it is really worth it.
 
Nvidia really doesn't have anything between the $250 and $350 price point. There's just the GTX 760 and the GTX 770. That's a gap that AMD took full advantage of when they released the R9 280X.

Anyway, since you wanted a GTX 680, get the GTX 770. It provides roughly the same performance as the GTX 680.
 
Doesn't Newegg have 10% off with Masterpass still going on until 12/21?
They seem to periodically run out of the "free" holiday bundles (so you can apply the code), so you might want to check your luck.
 
Dangman said:
Nvidia really doesn't have anything between the $250 and $350 price point. There's just the GTX 760 and the GTX 770. That's a gap that AMD took full advantage of when they released the R9 280X.

Anyway, since you wanted a GTX 680, get the GTX 770. It provides roughly the same performance as the GTX 680.
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Want probably isn't the word, just was a pretty decent deal from a friend. I would love to play FFXIV across 3 monitors @ 1080p each but believe this to be unrealistic off of a single 770 or 680 no? My 6950 got like, 10-15fps like that and was just unbearable.
 
Vashypooh said:
Want probably isn't the word, just was a pretty decent deal from a friend. I would love to play FFXIV across 3 monitors @ 1080p each but believe this to be unrealistic off of a single 770 or 680 no? My 6950 got like, 10-15fps like that and was just unbearable.
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You might get like double the FPS with a single GTX 770 with such a config.
 
Vashypooh said:
Want probably isn't the word, just was a pretty decent deal from a friend. I would love to play FFXIV across 3 monitors @ 1080p each but believe this to be unrealistic off of a single 770 or 680 no? My 6950 got like, 10-15fps like that and was just unbearable.
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I don't know what you would consider playable FPS, but I don't think it's possible for ~30 fps with that kind of a resolution from a single card in that price range. If nothing else, I don't think a 770 has the vram to handle it.
 
HFBallad said:
I don't know what you would consider playable FPS, but I don't think it's possible for ~30 fps with that kind of a resolution from a single card in that price range. If nothing else, I don't think a 770 has the vram to handle it.
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I can't speak for that particular title, but the 770 shouldn't have any problems getting playable frame rates for most games @ 5760x1080, provided you are realistic with the settings.
 
Vashypooh said:
I am thinking I will likely do: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-...e=UTF8&qid=1387683728&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+770

then sell off the 3 free games it comes with, and probably get it down to ~300.

Any better suggestions?
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Where did you see that it comes with 3 free games?

Though honestly, it's dependent on badly you want and quickly you can get the card. I say that because at $360, it's going to be a really bad price for it once the R9 290 and the R9 280X falls back to their $400 and $300 price points respectively. That may happen next month or the next two months however.
 
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Dangman said:
Where did you see that it comes with 3 free games?

Though honestly, it's dependent on badly you want and quickly you can get the card. I say that because at $360, it's going to be a really bad price for it once the R9 290 and the R9 280X falls back to their $400 and $300 price points respectively. That may happen next month or the next two months however.
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http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_lin...d_t=201&pf_rd_p=1679377002&pf_rd_i=B00CZIQXBA

My wifes 470 went tits up and crashes all the time, so I gave her my 6950. I am on my work laptop that has a quattro 3000m in it, and I have overclocked it as far as it will go, but its still not a real gaming card. To its credit, it is taking the OC like a champ. haha.
 
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Vashypooh said:
That's a really nice deal.. how is MSI's warranty support and so forth? I lean towards EVGA based off of past experiences, but I suppose I am not against MSI. My 6950 was MSi and still seems strong.
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I have that exact card and its nice. I only had it for few weeks but I just bought an MSI 780 though so mine will be going up in the fs section as soon as I feel like taking a pic. lol
 
MSI's warranty has always been good. 3 years, based on the serial number. When one of my 6950s went bad they upgraded me to 7870 crossfire (from 6950 crossfire)
 
The MSI's card went up to 339, so I spent the extra on the EVGA on Amazon and 2.99 next day. Playing on this laptop is killing me.

Thanks all!
 
Do I need a special adapter for Nvidia cards to run 3 monitors? Or can I do 2 DVI, One HDMI?

I know eyefinity on my card I had a sepcial mini displayport to DVI.
 
Vashypooh said:
What do you mean tearing?
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AMD 7 series and older cards suffered from screen tearing on the desktop because of the required use of at least one DP output. So you'd have 2 monitors using DVI or HDMI, and one using an active DP adapter, which caused some funky stuff.
 
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